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What is YARA?

YARA is a tool aimed at helping malware researchers to identify and classify malware samples. It allows you to create descriptions of malware families (or whatever you want to describe) based on textual or binary patterns. A YARA rule consists of a set of strings and a boolean expression. YARA rules are commonly used for malware analysis, threat hunting, and incident response to identify malware samples or other malicious artifacts based on specific patterns or characteristics.

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What other technologies are related to YARA?

YARA Competitor Technologies

Snort

Snort is an open-source intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS) that uses rules to detect malicious activity. While YARA focuses on pattern matching for malware identification, Snort focuses on network traffic analysis, they are conceptually similar in that they perform rule-based detection, and some rules may accomplish similar goals. They are often used together in a layered approach to security.

mentioned alongside YARA in 22% (1.1k) of relevant job posts

Suricata

Suricata is another open-source intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS) that, like Snort, uses rules to detect malicious activity in network traffic. It offers similar functionality for network-based threat detection as Snort and can be used to achieve the same outcome as YARA rules used for that purpose.

mentioned alongside YARA in 21% (599) of relevant job posts

YARA-L

YARA-L is a language made by Google, which is used to search for threats in logs. YARA-L is designed for searching through logs, whereas traditional YARA is more often used on files, but they serve similar purposes.

mentioned alongside YARA in 39% (52) of relevant job posts

YARA Complementary Technologies

Open IOC

OpenIOC is a framework for describing and sharing threat intelligence. YARA rules can be used to detect the presence of indicators of compromise (IOCs) defined in OpenIOC format. While OpenIOC provides a structure for describing the IOCs, YARA provides the means of finding them.

mentioned alongside YARA in 98% (62) of relevant job posts

OpenIOC

Duplicate of OpenIOC above.

mentioned alongside YARA in 64% (84) of relevant job posts

Perl Compatible Regular Expressions

PCRE are used in YARA rules to perform advanced text matching. PCRE is a regular expression engine, which is a component of YARA's rule syntax.

mentioned alongside YARA in 86% (51) of relevant job posts